Re: [Evolution] Status of Evolution and Exchange

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>]

I've just upgraded to Evo-2.6.2 and Evo-Exchange -2.6.2 on Gentoo Linux
and I'm happy to say that I don't face these issues. 
I guess I'm just lucky.

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 10:27 -0500, TimD Smith wrote:
> Yeah....I have a similar problem.  I can actually get and read my
> emails but the connection to the exchange server dies about 10 times
> an hour and I have to do evolution --force-shutdown and relaunch for
> it to start working again.  Very annoying.  I'm not using Fedora
> though.  I'm using Arch Linux.  I've even gotten and compiled the cvs
> version of evolution and it's dependencies and installed them and
> still get the same thing.
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 08:43 -0600, Nathan Broderick wrote:
> > Ade seems to be having the same problems as myself with the
> > connector.  The problems seem to be a combination of Fedora Core 5
> > and the Evolution Exchange connector.  I never had any problems with
> > Fedora Core 4 and the connector.  I have two systems with Fedora
> > Core 5 (one is 64 bit) and they both have the same issues connecting
> > to the exchange server using the Evolution connector.   Ever since
> > I've moved to Fedora 5, I have not been able to get my emails once.
> > Evolution will come up and my folders will show emails are
> > available, but then nothing will show up.  It's not an
> > authentication issue.  I've also been running yum updates regularly
> > in order to get the latest code in hopes I can use Evolution soon.
> > For a temporary workaround, I've been using Thunderbird.
> >
> > If I could send debug information out to somebody I would be glad to
> > help out.  I really miss using Evolution since it is the best email
> > client for Linux I have used.
> >
> > Brett Johnson wrote: 
> > > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 02:59 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > >   
> > > > what exactly does not work?
> > > >     
> > >
> > > Not speaking for Ade, but I've observed by converting my boss to a linux
> > > laptop (he has a corporate msexchange account, and I don't, so this was
> > > my first experience with the connector) -- that nearly all the problems
> > > I've run into are related to poor error reporting in Evo, and difficulty
> > > in finding the needed information to get the connection set up (i.e. the
> > > proper OWA URL, GAB server, and username/password format).
> > >
> > > For example, his msexchange account has a mailbox size quota.  If he's
> > > using outlook or OWA, and he runs out of space, he gets what looks like
> > > an email message in his inbox telling him he's out of space (and
> > > msexchange refuses to send any more emails).  With Evo, he gets no
> > > indication at all, except that Evo keeps asking for his password over &
> > > over (and the mail just silently sits in his outbox, not being sent).
> > >
> > > Another example is that a few days ago the msexchange server had
> > > problems, and the OWA interface wasn't working (the web page  would fail
> > > with a 105 client reset error).  Again, the only indication he got from
> > > Evo that something was wrong was that it kept asking for his password
> > > over and over.
> > >
> > > Overall though, it works quite well for him, and he's a happy camper :)
> > >
> > >   
> >
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